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richard@rcroker.com

... GOT IT!!!!!!!!! And (of course) I was wrong. Following is an e-mail from Ed Raus, historian at the Manassas NBP.. Sir Apparently N. G. Evans took command

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> I have oft read the account of the meeting between General Lee and General
> Hood where the latter had his arrest suspended and returned to command of
> his division, which included the famed Texas Brigade.
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> My question is this: Who effectively commanded the division on the march
> as long as General Hood was under arrest and before General Lee restored
> him to command on the urging of the Texans as they marched through
> Boonsboro on the way to Fox's Gap on September 14th?
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GOT IT!!!!!!!!! And (of course) I was wrong. Following is an e-mail from
Ed Raus, historian at the Manassas NBP..
Sir

Apparently N. G. Evans took command of the Division until Sept. 14 when
Hood was restored to command. See discussion of this issue in Joseph L.
Harsh, Sounding the Shallows, Kent State Press, pg. 57. Apparently Evans
outranked Hood. Hope this helps.

Ed Raus

Rawlings, Kevin

Evans held the center line at the Boonsboro Turnpike just down from the present National Cemetery overlooking the Middle Bridge and held the Regulars at bay.

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Evans held the center line at the Boonsboro Turnpike just down from the
present National Cemetery overlooking the Middle Bridge and held the
Regulars at bay. Antietam was Evans last hurrah with the ANV. He was one of
the many officers to be replaced when Lee cleaned house in the late fall of
62 and ultimately made the ANV in his own image, figuratively speaking. See
Bob Krick's essay on just this subject in the first book of essays on the
Maryland Campaign.

Kevin Rawlings

Rawlings, Kevin

That would be Gary Gallagher s first collection of essays on the Maryland Campaign published by the Kansas University Press. Kevin

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That would be Gary Gallagher's first collection of essays on the Maryland
Campaign published by the Kansas University Press.

Kevin

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